The shortened GAA championship season last year hit sales of O’Neill’s replica jerseys, as pre-tax profits at the main company behind the O’Neill’s brand fell 18% to €1.3m.

This was a game between two of the sport’s best. It stood to reason that everyone wanted to see it happen.

A Cork poet known for his humour has added a note of poignancy to his latest collection, writes Pet O’Connell

Cork intermediate football champions Éire Óg have poked Templenoe on social media ahead of the pair’s Munster IFC semi-final on Sunday.

From watching Arsenal in Clonmel on Saturday morning through the third lap of homecoming celebrations on Wednesday night in Liam Sheedy’s Portroe, Seamus Kennedy’s All-Ireland diary takes us inside an exhilarating and emotional week in Tipperary.

Catch up on the headlines.

Despite a remarkable personal tally of 0-15, Johnny English came out on the losing side as Castletownroche secured a first Cork JBHC title in 21 years in Pairc Ui Rinn.

Galway produced a performance of real steel to match their talent to return to the Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final for the first time in four years.

Kilkenny came good in the second half to return to the Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final for the sixth time in the last seven seasons.

Meath will face Tipperary in the TG4 All-Ireland Intermediate Championship Final after they produced a powerhouse display in overcoming Roscommon at Nowlan Park.

Tipperary booked their place in the TG4 All-Ireland Intermediate Championship decider on September 15 with an accomplished victory against Sligo at Nowlan Park, Kilkenny.

John Fogarty Outnumbered they might have been but Tipperary supporters were not outshouted at last month’s All-Ireland semi-final.

The stakes are unseasonably high as Carbery Rangers and Castlehaven clash in the Cork SFC second round in Skibbereen tonight (7pm).

If she has heard it once, she has heard it a thousand times and it really grinds her gears.

Hurling fans supporting the men in blue and gold have been advised that morning rail services this Sunday from Limerick/Limerick Junction and Cork to Dublin are sold out

Former All-Ireland winning captain Michael Fennelly has advised Kilkenny’s players to tap into the tears and emotion of 2016 as they prepare to face Tipperary once more.

Victory for Douglas in round 2 of the Cork IHC at Ovens last night. Ahead by three points at the interval, a second-half goal from James Moylan set them on their way.

Fans will have free access to menstrual products at this year’s Solheim Cup in Gleneagles.

Great Britain’s Jess Learmonth and Georgia Taylor-Brown were disqualified on the finishing line to hand Bermuda’s Flora Duffy gold at the Tokyo 2020 triathlon test event.

The chairman of Kerry GAA, Tim Murphy, has said they have complete confidence in the integrity of the process which has nominated David Gough to referee the All-Ireland SFC final against Dublin.

Jurgen Klopp has said he was hugely impressed by the performance of referee Stephanie Frappart, who became the first female official to take charge of a major UEFA men’s competition event.

France centre Geoffrey Doumayrou has been ruled out of the World Cup due to an Achilles injury, coach Jacques Brunel has announced.

The father of former Manchester United and Republic of Ireland footballer Roy Keane has died after a long illness.

Former Waterford boss Derek McGrath has admitted he wants to manage his county again at some stage but stated it’s unlikely to be for 2020.

Club championship fixtures will be played in Cork on the same days the county contests the All-Ireland minor football and U20 hurling finals.

Derek McGrath has admitted he regrets his ‘self-indulgent’ The Sunday Game comments about the sweeper system which he acknowledged made him sound bitter.

We live in strange times. Not only can a team lose four championship matches in the one summer these days, but they can feel pretty good about themselves on the back of it. And with good reason.

It’s 30 years since Babs Keating guided his county to the All-Ireland that broke an 18-year famine. The man who for many symbolises the good and the grandiose of Tipperary hurling is as absorbing and outspoken as ever.

Former Sinn Féin TD Peadar Tóibín’s new, yet-to-be-named pro-life, republican political party, is eyeing Donegal as one of its “target” constituencies as it tries to make a breakthrough in May’s local elections.

It was Declan Hannon who said it, sitting in the victors’ banquet with the Liam MacCarthy Cup in front of him: ‘We’ve all marched behind the band out the back garden when we were four, five, six years of age.’

I thought it was all over for trains and GAA supporters, and I thought I had the exact moment the romance had ended: when Cork decided to go by bus to Dublin.

A ritual of summer motoring in Ireland used to be fairly regular stops to clean windscreens of huge numbers of dead insects.

The number of people availing of free travel has dramatically risen along with the ageing population over the past decade.

Now THAT'S dedication.

No unadorned surface has been left untouched, no bare space undecorated, as walls, animals, bales of hay, and cars have been given the blue and white treatment as Waterford fans prepare for their first All-Ireland final in nine years, with their heroes attempting to bridge a winning gap stretching to 1959.

Catch up on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com this morning.

Fans of Soccer Saturday will be excited to know that two of its biggest stars have landed in Ireland.

No surprises here. Not even the hint of any.

John Horan was last night elected as the first Dublin-born GAA president since 1924 when Daniel McCarthy finished his three-year term.

THE hotel sector has very favourable Vat arrangements and has for generations been a low-pay industry. That suggests the sector expects to advance while having comparatively low tax bills as well as low staff costs.

All-Ireland electricity prices will likely rise only slightly this year, after falling sharply in 2016, a supplier to the Irish market has predicted.

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald is “absolutely open” to holding talks with garda officials in a bid to prevent unprecedented strike action that risks leaving the public defenceless in just six weeks’ time.